Dems are all about power not compassion. SOP is to project their guilt onto their political opponents & it’s the State over individual freedom at all cost. Example #1 the mueller debacle:
THE RAMIFICATIONS OF MUELLER’S FAILURE.
Posted by Pointman on March 28, 2019 · 13 Comments
Well, after two years of investigation and directly employing 20 lawyers, 50 assorted law enforcement officers, serving nearly 3000 subpoenas, 500 search warrants and over 500 witnesses called to testify and all of it costing an estimated $33,000,000 to the taxpayer, the Mueller investigation couldn’t pin a single thing on Trump, though it certainly wasn’t for lack of trying.
It represented the pits, the lowest American law could sink to in several ways. To name but a few, it trampled all over the lives of innocent witnesses, leaving them with crippling legal debts and their reputations trashed by nothing but sniggering innuendo from a fake news machine that was fed a steady stream of tasty morsels of unproven suspicions by investigation insiders.
Anything to get Trump, even if that meant coercing witnesses to admit to things they hadn’t done. It even ignored that foundation stone of law, the client lawyer privilege, when their goons ransacked the office of one of Trump’s lawyers.
The abuse of law and legal process for political reasons couldn’t have been plainer. The executive organs of government threw away any notion of due process and the judiciary connived with it by turning a blind eye. It was never an investigation, but a critical step in executing what was nothing less than a poorly disguised coup d’etat. It was that tawdry old whore treason, dressed up in judicial robes to legitimise it.
The aftershocks of its failure to achieve its prime objective of ousting a legally elected President of the United States, which be in no doubt was the whole point of the exercise, are several.
The big one is that Trump is now politically stronger than he’s ever been, and he’ll use that impetus to push on with his agenda even without control of the House. In a broader sense, it’s made him more popular with the general public, because all the slanders they’d heard about him for two years proved baseless, as he’d assured them all along. They were the liars, not him. He’d beaten them all; Mueller, the 24/7 fake news machine and all those oh so smart political commentators predicting his doom any day now. That’ll make things even more difficult for the Dems in 2020.
It’s a disaster for American journalism from which it’ll never recover.
Before the findings came out, trust in mainstream news and journalism had already fallen to historic lows, but Trump’s complete vindication has shocked those few individuals left who believed that yes, the news is always a bit over the top, that’s just its way, but you know basically it was still being truthful. They were the innocents, the last ones who hadn’t come to deeply distrust it. After suddenly realising they’ve been lied to brazenly for two years, they, like Elvis, have just left the building.
Once trust in a news delivery medium has gone, everything’s gone, and in my estimation, the fake news machine is by now incapable of fundamental change, so watch for waves of redundancies and downsizing occurring in newsrooms over the coming year, especially after the 2020 election, where their complete lack of utility to their political masters will be plain to see.
For the Democrat party, it’s a double if not triple whammy. To put it bluntly, the mainstream media, or fake news as everyone calls it these days, is their propaganda arm. It’s no longer an asset to them because since people don’t believe a word it says, its ability to be used as an influencer in elections will be zero. It could even be considered a liability – whatever it says, people will either discount automatically as lies or think the opposite must be true.
This loss of influence didn’t just suddenly happen because Mueller crashed and burned, it started a lot further back, a decade at least. If you recall, Trump won in 2016 when the fake news machine was uniformly against him to such an extent that he didn’t even bother talking to them, instead using social media like Twitter to get his campaign message out to the voter directly. That can only mean the voter already didn’t trust them at that point – the waning of their influence was well underway even then.
The second half of the whammy will hit what’s already regarded by the young socialists of the party as the old guard. The old guard had a cunning plan to win a shoo in election, and they lost it. Then their next cunning plan was using the faked Steele dossier to abuse the FISA court in order to force the setting of the Mueller investigation to get rid of Trump, and now that’s backfired spectacularly on them.
If they knew for sure there was something to be found out by Mueller, it would have been a smart move, but there wasn’t, so it wasn’t. If the intention was to just intimidate him out of office, that would have been a serious underestimation of the strength of the man. Whichever their thinking was, either or both were blunders that brought them to this pass.
The young bloods of the party may not know what they’re doing, but the old guard definitely look jaded and tired at this point. In the wake of the Mueller debacle, they’ll easily be pushed aside and the party, under control of the zealots, will move leftwards. That’ll frighten the bejazus out of the traditional Democrat voters who’ll stay at home in droves next year, so it’ll be easy for Trump to campaign in 2020 on a platform one plank of which will be saving America from socialism. He was already planning to do that anyway. It’s the obvious move.
Pick me, you get MAGA, pick them, you get Venezuela.
For the deep state, it means their time is over and Trump has beaten them. When you’ve a personal fortune of $10 billion, it buys a lot of information and dirt on people. Before he even got into the Oval Office, he’d already put names and faces to that amorphous blob he knew he’d be up against, and he’s been steadily getting rid of them one by one for the last two years. Most interestingly, he’s never used the dirt, preferring to let them do the throwing. That way, they look like grubby mud slingers and he gets to look like a long-suffering grownup patiently dealing with a badly behaved child.
They thought they were running a successful campaign of attrition against him, but in reality it was a bad strategy for two reasons. First, attrition simply doesn’t work against a tough guy like Trump. He bloody thrives on pressure. Second, attrition implies an ongoing stalemate where neither side is initiating any new moves, which plays exactly to Trump’s style of fighting. He’s an aggressor who likes initiating moves, but he won’t come at you with a club, it’ll be a rapier making very precise holes in you. You won’t notice it’s been happening until the blood loss gets critical and you keel over.
What has actually been happening is he’s been picking them off one by one for the last two years, like an American sniper. Count them off; Comey, McCabe, Brennan, whoever, the list goes on and on. The deep state taken down, brick by brick, or dick by dick if you prefer. Probably the last Augean stables to clear out are the DoJ and the State Department, and I’ve no doubt the relevant individuals inside those already have one of those funny red laser dot things on their chest.
The only survival strategy left to the deep state is to withdraw from the field and stay off it as long as he’s President. He has the whip firmly in his hand now and he won’t hesitate to use it ruthlessly on you. But even that might not save you.
As ever, I think Trump has read the popular mood – anger over law appearing to apply without exception to small people but not to the rich and powerful in Washington, the ones who’ve broken the law, covered up each other’s crimes, lied to Congress, destroyed evidence and ruthlessly and deliberately destroyed the lives of other people. Not to forget a little thing like plotting a coup against America.
Judging by a brief interview he gave on Monday, I think he’s come around to the viewpoint that hard examples will have to be made to restore public confidence in the organs of government. Not fines, not community service, but prison time.
I remarked on him before, his history is he’s unforgiving when it comes to getting his own back – just ask Obama about the biggest mistake he ever made in his life, the WH Correspondents’ Dinner where he deeply and publically humiliated Trump. It took a few years, a large measure of patience and some deep planning, but he’s torn Obama’s meager legacy down, and if he can get him into a court of law, his revenge will be complete. I always thought that was his true endgame.
He appears to have given the nod to people like Attorney General William Barr and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham to let the investigation of the whole back trail begin; the Clinton Foundation, Uranium sales, home email servers, evidence destruction, FISA abuse, weaponisation of the IRS and of course government targetting of political opponents. Wherever it leads.
Nobody from a minor dirtbag like Strzok right up to a major scalp like Obama is safe. He may not be able to put all of them behind bars, but those who escape that fate will find their reputations won’t be worth a plugged nickel after the public flogging he’s got in mind for them.
There is a practical tradition in politics that you don’t trash offices of state. Perhaps rough up the current incumbent, but never the office, otherwise you’re attacking the very structure of governance. Trump is an old-fashioned believer in the Constitution and civil government and it has been that principle that stopped him “locking her up” when there was ample evidence to do so.
I listened to him on Hannity on Thursday and he made no bones about it; talked openly about the overthrow of the government and treason, and there was a tinge of outrage and disgust in his voice. He’s been balancing out punishment of treasonous acts by office holders against the American people, and the principle of protecting an office, and I think he’s reluctantly came to a hard decision. He said words to the effect that it wasn’t about him, no president should have to go through what he did for the last two years; never again.
To my mind, he sounded like a man who’d decided the protection of the Office of President, the Constitution and the people of America took precedence over the protection of offices of state that had been treacherously abused. He’s prepared to take some constitutional casualties to preserve the essentials.
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